La structuration prosodique et les relations syntaxe/ prosodie dans le discours politique (Prosodic Structuring and the Syntax-Prosody Relationship in Political Speech) [in French]

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Prosodic Structuring and the Syntax-Prosody Relationship in Political Speech Studies on the prosodic structure of French recognize the existence of different types of prosodic constituents. These constituents differ from each other in the way in which they are constructed and realized. Generally speaking, prosodic structure is sensitive to syntactic structure and influenced by the syntax – despite the difference between prosodic and syntactic constituency. In listening to political speeches, one cannot help but notice the division of the stream of speech produced by its speakers; it differs markedly from what is expected, especially with respect to both the matching conditions with syntactic structure and the shape of the contours. The present paper is a systematic study of chunking produced in a political speech by Jacques Chirac. The goal is twofold: First, to uncover the factors intervening in the construction of the prosodic constituents and second, to determine the ways in which they resemble or differ from established assumptions pertaining to standard French. MOTS-CLES : structure prosodique, interface prosodie/syntaxe, variation et phonostyle.